Author Archives: Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org

Feb15

Retailers: What’s your Pinterest strategy?

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: February 15, 2012
1 Comment | Posted in Retail Companies, Social Media

We have a fresh niche social site to talk about, and its making a huge splash. Last week, we saw reports that Pinterest has hit 10 million unique monthly U.S. visits. Reports for the week of January 16, 2012 monitored the site traffic as high as 17 million unique monthly U.S. visits. It’s addicting, it’s social, and [...]

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Jan04

Talking with… One Kings Lane CEO Doug Mack

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: January 4, 2012
2 Comments | Posted in Events, Merchandising, Retail Companies, Social Media

Curated online flash sales sites are all the rage in online retail these days. In 2011, one of the most talked-about was the elegant home decor site, One Kings Lane. Last year, long-time Shop.org member and e-commerce veteran Doug Mack was appointed to lead this niche start-up as Chief Executive Officer. With founders Susan Feldman [...]

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Nov30

How digital retailers are investing in U.S. jobs in 2012

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: November 30, 2011
1 Comment | Posted in Research

According to recent research from NRF, 3.6 million stores draw on a vast array of suppliers and support 42 million jobs and $2.5 trillion of annual GDP in the U.S. While the impact of the industry just keeps growing, a very important part of that is the double-digit growth area of digital. According to the [...]

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Nov01

Retailers beware: Internet domain expansion could cost you more than your brand identity

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: November 1, 2011
3 Comments | Posted in IT/Operations, Public Policy

This January, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will begin accepting applications for new extensions of generic top-level domains (gTLDs). What exactly do all these acronyms have to do with you? Well, probably quite a bit if you’re part of a retail organization that conducts business online. Now is the time to [...]

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Oct06

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Shop.org remembers Steve Jobs

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: October 6, 2011
4 Comments | Posted in Retail Companies

Yesterday the world lost the greatest American visionary, entrepreneur, inventor, designer, and technologist of all time. Like President Obama himself, I, and millions around the world learned of the passing of this retail legend on the very device that he created. Jobs created and led the iconic, cutting-edge Apple brand through innovation and design. In [...]

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